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	Mobile phone technology turns 20

Tommolo

9-8-2007 7:55 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8c2247c5-940f-4fb8-9ac0-f8cff00dda4b/56A46A71-F5A4-4E28-AE2E-F452D252BA94/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm"><FONT size="2">On 7 September 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm"><FONT size="2">According to the GSM Association there are more than 2.5 billion accounts that use this mobile phone technology.
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm"><FONT size="2">"The technology is a gravitational force that brings in to its orbit a huge amount of innovators," he said.
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"There's no doubt that at the time of the agreement in 1987 no one had an idea of the explosive capabilities in terms of growth that would happen after the GSM standard was agreed," </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.bbc.co.uk/img/86696237-1ECA-4F2A-88B4-5DFB6E31BD7B" alt="Discarded mobiles, PA" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm"><DIV class="cap">There are so many phones that recycling them is a problem</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983869.stm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="sibtbg"><DIV class="sih">
                            GSM FACTS
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<DIV class="mva"><DIV class="bull">China has 445 million GSM customers</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">There are 2.5 billion GSM connections worldwide</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">64% of mobile users are in emerging markets</DIV>
<DIV class="bull">About seven billion text messages are sent every day</DIV>
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<DIV class="mva"><I>Source: GSM Association</I></DIV>
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